148 THE CORRESPONDENCE OF SCHWEINITZ AND TORREY 
mortified when on returning to town from the country I found 
the box which I had given to a person to put on board a Peters- 
burg packet, still remaining in his hands. This was a month 
ago, & I hope, that as I then ordered it immediately to be sent, 
that you have received it safely long before this. I shall be very 
much dissapointed if it should be lost as there were in it many 
specimens of which I can not now obtain duplicates. How anxious 
I am to hear your opinion respecting these plants! Don’t punish 
my neglect by delaying it long. There was a fine parcel of mosses 
from Massachusetts, some lichens, a few fungi & some algae. 
For your present of a copy of your Hepaticae [74] I feel in- 
debted to you as otherwise I should probably not have seen it 
until this time, the work not having yet been offered for sale here. 
I requested you to send me on a number of copies to dispose 
of on your account but they have never yet come to hand. When 
shall we have a continuation of this exceedingly desirable & 
valuable work. The specimen you have given the world will 
certainly have the effect of making all lovers of botany wish the 
complete work—Pray gratify them as soon as possible. You know I 
will be of all the assistance I can to you in furnishing specimens 
of such things as come in my way. 
You will think me unreasonable to ask any thing more of you 
after such bountiful collections being sent to me, but really there are 
so many choice things described in your late work that I cannot 
refrain from adding a list of a few, any of which will be highly 
acceptable to me. Thisisat the end of the letter. How delighted 
should I be to see that Andreaea you mention in your letter. I 
did not suspect the genus was in this part of the world. Your 
monography of the genus Viola [68] I presume you have sent to 
the Philosophical Society as I have not heard of Silliman’s re- 
ceiving it. 
Our Gratiola neglecta turns out to be nothing new after all, 
for in a letter I lately received from Sir J. E. Smith he remarks, 
“Gratiola neglecta is precisely the authentic G. virginiana from 
Kalm. The synonym of Hort. Malabar. belongs to a different 
plant, considered by Vahl as a variety of G. trifida, but I think it is 
still more unlike that species’’-—Now what is to become of G. 
virginica of Elliott? It is undoubtedly a different plant from 
